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• Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited
  
• Crossbow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control
  
• Ethernet bridge module for Solaris
  
• Multi-pathing software (MPxIO)
  
• NPort ID Virtualization (NPIV)
  
• RBridge (IETF TRILL) support
  

LDoms Overview Logical Domains, or LDoms, technology allows a user to allocate a system's various resources, such as memory, CPUs, and devices, into logical groupings and create multiple, discrete systems, each with their own operating system, resources, and identity within a single computer system. Getting Started Sun's LDoms site BigAdmin Site for LDoms Sun BluePrints LDoms Beginner's Guide Documentation LDoms 1.1 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) Latest LDoms 1.1 Release Notes (pdf) (html) Latest LDoms 1.0.3 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) LDoms 1.0.3 Release Notes (pdf), (html) LDoms 1.0.2 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) LDoms 1.0.2 Release Notes (pdf), (html) LDoms 1.0.1 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) LDoms 1.0.1 Release Notes (pdf), (html) LDoms 1.0 Admin Guide (pdf) LDoms 1.0 Release Notes (pdf), (html) UltraSPARC T1 Documentation Site UltraSPARC T2 Documentation Site UltraSPARC Hypervisor API (pdf) Get the Software Download the LDM Software and Platform Firmware Discussions Join the OpenSolaris LDoms Discussion LDoms Forum Wikis Logical Domains Wiki Solaris Cluster Wiki on LDoms Support Wiki Reviews T5120/T5220 Review, by Octave Orgeron (PDF) The SPARC Enterprise T5140/T5240 and Virtualization, By Octave Orgeron (PDF) Technical Papers An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 1 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 32, no. 4 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2007]), pg. 20-24. (PDF) An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 2 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 32, no. 5 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2007]), pg. 26-34. (PDF) An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 3 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 33, no. 1 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2008]), pg. 39-47. (PDF) An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 4 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 33, no. 2 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2008]), pg. 24-33. (PDF) Sun BluePrints, Sun Server Virtualization Technology, by Jeff Savit (HTML) Sun BluePrints, Solaris Operating System Hardware Virtualization Product Architecture, by Chien-Hua Yen (PDF) Sun BluePrints, Using Logical Domains and CoolThreads Technology: Improving Scalability and System Utilization, by Ning Sun and Lee Anne Simmons (PDF) Sun BluePrints, LDOMS I/O Best Practices: Data Reliability with Logical Domains, by Peter A. Wilson (PDF) Sun BluePrints, LDOMS I/O Best Practices: Network Availability with Logical Domains, by Peter A. Wilson (PDF) LDoms Community Cookbook - Tasty Recipes for Sun Logical Domains (Wiki Page) New Deploying Sugar CRM on Sun Logical Domains for Increased Scalability (PDF) New Presentations Presentation by Eric Sharakan to NEOSUG, Sep 11, 2007. (PDF) Presentation by Liam Merwick to IEOSUG and LOSUG , Sep/Oct, 2007. (PDF) LDoms introduction by Nick Kloski. (video) Blog Entries Introduction to LDom's LDom Installation Configuring the Control Domain Time to Build a Guest Domain

Blogs

Raghuram Kothakota - NIU Hybrid I/O

Dec 24, 11:54 PM

NIU Hybrid I/O feature is one of the significant network features released with LDoms1.1. NIU Hybrid I/O provides a very high  bandwidth with low latency directly to a Guest domain. This technology ...

Octave Orgeron - LDoms 1.1 Details

Dec 24, 10:22 AM

Our good friend Alexandre Chartre has a great blog entry with some details! It's an excellent read! I think the ability to do Warm Migrations, enhanced dynamic reconfiguration, and enhancements to ...

Octave Orgeron - LDoms 1.1 Released!

Dec 24, 9:45 AM

I'm very pleased to announce that LDoms 1.1 has been released today! This is major update to the product. Here are the new features: Warm and Cold Migration Network NIU Hybrid I/O VLAN Tagging ...

sharakan - LDoms 1.1

Dec 24, 9:37 AM

Just in time for the holidays, LDoms version 1.1 is now available! This is a major new release of Logical Domains technology, with an extensive list of new features & bugfixes. Here are the ...

achartre - LDoms 1.1

Dec 24, 9:15 AM

It's been a while I haven't added a new entry to this blog, but there was a good reason: we have been working very hard on a new release of the LDoms product. This new release is now available as ...